Firefox 3.5 Treats Videos Like Web Pages

Demo by Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, on how it uses an open source player to handle video.

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[darthirakli]

I hope this will help to get rid of crappy Flash sooner or later.

[dippydawg827]

its only bloated if you make it bloated. you can easily clear everything out that would make it slower. Its STILL better than IE, which isn't saying much, I know.

[TheBilly]

@darthirakli The real problem with web video - which Flash solved single-handedly by sticking its choice of codec in a plug-in with already high penetration - was the fragmentation that came from competing formats, due to competing patents and the companies that had licensing interests in them (see: millions of dollars to make in fees!). To that end, Microsoft and Apple, each with a large portfolio of patents, hamstringed the standards process and reinvented codec hell for the video tag.

[TheBilly]

@darthirakli Flash only stole the video market because the other multiple competing codecs were such a nightmare. 'crappy' Flash killed crappy RealVideo (buffering, buffering), crappy WMV, and, to a lesser extent, crappy Quicktime. No more choosing between various formats with a radio button when you just want to watch a damn video

[DicksOrGTFO1]

@rossmart34 Overclocking is for lamers.

[ShakeAndBakeGuy]

I'm excited!!!

[rossmart34]

LOL. My pc is mainly for benching and gaming. I can't even make a Word document o.0 Thanks for the heads up though. I leave coding to smart folks...and they leave the overclocking to us people at OCN.

[pedrowasabi]

html5 ftw!

[kingdogol]

LOL, that's because the majority of sites on the web aren't currently coded in HTML 5....c'mon man, time to start researching and stop being a pc couch potato

[themister969696]

compatibility sucks though,